Attn license engine users: versioning

Brion Vibber brion at pobox.com
Thu Apr 15 21:29:09 EDT 2004


On Apr 15, 2004, at 17:52, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> By the way, I was just browsing mediawiki cvs and noticed your comment
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/phase3/config/ 
> index.php?rev=1.23&view=auto
>
> "Going out to CC and back loses all other options from the form."
>
> FYI you can pass anything you want in exit_url, including state you  
> want to be passed back when the user "proceeds" back to the exit url.

No offense, but I don't really want people's database passwords going  
into your web server logs. ;) Of course it could pass a session ID, or  
use some JavaScript popup goodies, but that's a second step after  
making it work at all.

> Another approach is to make the license chooser a popup and have the  
> exit url use javascript to set a license field on a form in the parent  
> page.
> See <http://creativecommons.org/technology/developerdocs>, which I  
> suppose could use more examples.

I'll see if I can whip up a clean iframe implementation as a demo.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)




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